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Happy child program invests in centre for children with disabilities

20 Mar 2007 08:19:50 GMT
Source: World Vision Middle East/Eastern Europe office (MEERO)

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Children together with their parents and teachers in the playing room
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A community based organisation working with 40 children living with disabilities in Pljevlja, northern Montenegro, received a computer and projector donated by the Happy Child Program of World Vision in Montenegro, through its micro credit institution, AgroInvest.

"Today, World Vision has helped us by donating technical equipment that will enable our children to learn, observe and enjoy pictures and films in bigger and brighter formats, just like we observe them daily, and especially will be helpful to those children who face obstacles of mobility, vision and delicate vision," said Svetlana Dujovic, the 'Ray of Hope' director and mother of a 13-year-old boy living with cerebral palsy.

World Vision created the 'Happy Child' Project through having a stipulation that every AgroInvest, WV Serbia and Montenegro micro credit program, branch office in operation for over 18 months is obliged to use 2.5 percent of its revenue in a 'Happy child' project. Through donations and grants to schools, World Vision is working with the community to prioritise needs and invest in improvements for the community.

'This is an opportunity to thank you in the name of all our children, parents and members of our team," continued Dujovic.

Ray of Hope is a recognized community based NGO, working with people aged up to 35 with different developmental difficulties, such as autism, Downs syndrome and cerebral palsy. They work with limited resources but have focused themselves on different types of mental and physical exercises, socialisation processes and creativity.

World Vision in Montenegro through AgroInvest has implemented over 90 projects in Montenegro and financed over US$126,000 in various activities through donations to schools, nurseries, kindergartens and improving health conditions for the local community.

[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]

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